Daily Archives: August 22, 2012

A Lifesaver for Your Brain: Digital Sticky Notes Done Right

August 22, 2012
A Lifesaver for Your Brain: Digital Sticky Notes Done Right

Online life is a constant series of interruptions. Some people try to stave off madness by cluttering their desktops with floating windows from an app like Stickies. But now there’s a tidy, user-friendly improvement upon this idea (for Mac users). If you’ve ever created a new document, folder, alarm or event to remind you...

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Windows Phone on Verizon this year could boost Microsoft, Nokia

August 22, 2012
Windows Phone on Verizon this year could boost Microsoft, Nokia

Verizon Wireless will launch a Windows Phone 8 handset this year built by Nokia, showing support for Microsoft’s smartphone platform on the biggest U.S. carrier. Bloomberg reported the development on Wednesday, citing “a person with knowledge of the matter.” If correct and Verizon provides a major marketing push, both Microsoft and Nokia stand to...

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Check Out Everyday.me, A Diary App That Launched At Y-Combinator

August 22, 2012
Check Out Everyday.me, A Diary App That Launched At Y-Combinator

The App Store Y Combinator Demo Day was yesterday. A lot of consumer apps launched including the smallest, most personal network yet. Path is for 150 people and Pair is for two people, but Everyday.me is just for you. It’s a dairy app that lets you keep private pictures and notes about daily happenings....

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Hey developers: You can now add an Instagram-like experience right into your apps

August 22, 2012
Hey developers: You can now add an Instagram-like experience right into your apps

Instagram’s service has long offered much more than just an attractive set of vintage photo filters — the resulting network is what really led to its $1B price tag. That’s not to say there isn’t magic in those filters, however, and in many ways, it’s what keeps users coming back for more. So even...

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Even Without The iPhone, T-Mobile Just Made Customers An Offer That’s Tough To Refuse

August 22, 2012
Even Without The iPhone, T-Mobile Just Made Customers An Offer That’s Tough To Refuse

YouTube.com See Also 10 Things You Need To Be Doing If You Use Apple’s iCloud 10 Things That Still Annoy Me About The iPhone 8 Cool Things You Never Knew Your iPhone’s Headphones Could Do T-Mobile announced this morning that it will allow unlimited use of 4G data plans without overage charges or speed...

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Check Out The Mysterious Logo Apple Uses On Its Prototype iPhones (AAPL, EBAY)

August 22, 2012
Check Out The Mysterious Logo Apple Uses On Its Prototype iPhones (AAPL, EBAY)

eBay See Also Annoyed By Instagram? This App Will Remove Filters From Photos 8 Tricks That You Should Be Using When You Search For Stuff On Google How To Get Free Shipping And 9 Other Things You Didn’t Know Were Possible On Amazon An iPhone 4 prototype has appeared on eBay, reports 9to5Mac. Click...

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Piston Cloud Airframe — A Free Starter Package For Building An OpenStack Cloud

August 22, 2012
Piston Cloud Airframe — A Free Starter Package For Building An OpenStack Cloud

Piston Cloud has built a free OpenStack distribution that is promised to include what is needed to evaluate the open cloud environment. To really create a cloud environment and to make it useful, you can’t have it dependent on someone else to do it for you But just to get a cloud environment up...

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Is Apple Supplier Foxconn Finally Giving Its Workers a Fair Shake?

August 22, 2012

Apple and its factory partner, Foxconn, have made great strides in bringing Foxconn’s labor conditions into compliance with local laws, the Fair Labor Association said Tuesday. Not surprisingly, independent labor rights monitoring organizations remain skeptical that real progress has been made. In a status report made public on Tuesday, the FLA reported that all...

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Argentina’s Wormhole IT partners with Vivo to bring web conferencing to Brazil’s SMBs

August 22, 2012

Wormhole IT has partnered with Vivo to offer web-conferencing solutions to more than 1 million companies in Brazil, the Argentine company announced today during TNW Conference Latin America. As you may know, Telefonica’s local brand offers phone, TV and Internet services all over the country. Following the deal, Wormhole IT will provide Vivo with a...

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Ginger lands $5.4m from Li Ka-shing and others to improve there contextual grammar and spell checker

August 22, 2012

(Yes, that was an intentional grammar error in the title. Because its funny given the context.) Ginger Software today announced that it has raised an extra $5 million from Horizons Ventures – the VC fund owned by billionaire business magnate Li Ka-shing – and Silicon Valley-based Harbor Pacific Capital. The extended funding round also...

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